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TIL about the Dionne quintuplets. They lived in a specially built hospital nicknamed "Quintland" in the mid 1930's in Ontario. They were the biggest tourist attraction at the time, bringing in more than $50 million in revenue and were also used in film and to promote Quaker Oats.

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b9yo9 TIL four new species of epaulette walking sharks were recently discovered off the coast of Australia and Papua New Guinea which are able to travel short distances over land because of their ability to walk using their pectoral fins and live in low to no oxygen conditions for extended periods of time
awlYA TIL that Tolkien wrote yearly letters to his children as if they were from Father Christmas. They started off as simple Happy Christmas letters but grew more complex including a polar bear sidekick, the man on the moon, goblins, snow-elves, pictures, and he even developed an Arktik language.
yVD7v TIL about Henry J. Kaiser, an American industrialist who helped build the Hoover Dam and whose steelyard made Liberty ships in WWII. At the height of his success he had his own automobile company and broadcast corporation. Today only the healthcare company Kaiser Permanente is left of his empire.
1app7 TIL peeing in the shower once a day saves 2,500 liters of water per year per person
4kAYN TIL of the “Suicide Plant”. A plant so toxic that the slightest touch causes excruciating pain that feels like “being electrocuted and set on fire” that can last months.